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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
EPIGRAM: 8, by THOMAS WYATT Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In doubtful breast whilst motherly pity Last Line: To another must I make sepulture.' Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 80 Subject(s): Children; Death - Mothers; Childhood; Dead, The | |||
In doubtful breast whilst motherly pity With furious famine standeth at debate, Saith th'Hebrew mother, 'O child unhappy, Return thy blood where thou hadst milk of late. Yield me those limbs that I made unto thee And enter there where thou wert generate. For of one body against all nature To another must I make sepulture.' | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A FRIEND KILLED IN THE WAR by ANTHONY HECHT FOR JAMES MERRILL: AN ADIEU by ANTHONY HECHT TARANTULA: OR THE DANCE OF DEATH by ANTHONY HECHT CHAMPS D?ÇÖHONNEUR by ERNEST HEMINGWAY |
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